Example sentences of "of the [noun] state " in BNC.

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1 If he can alter the fortunes of the superpower state for the better , other nations will follow .
2 Overshadowed by the Gulf crisis , the meeting noted that the multinational forces confronting Iraq " have come at the request of the GCC states and will leave the region when the GCC states request " .
3 Apparently because of a border dispute with Saudi Arabia in October [ see p. 39165 ] , Qatar 's Foreign Minister had failed to attend the November conference of foreign affairs ministers of the GCC states [ see p. 39214 ] .
4 equivalent protection is not provided in the rules of the home state ;
5 The investment business of credit institutions , i.e. banks , that trade in securities may also be subject to the Capital Adequacy Directive at the option of the home state .
6 The electorates of the members states elect the European Parliament
7 In other words the issue is whether there has been a gradual process of change based on clear continuities with the past or an accumulation of changes in a relatively short space of time which has fundamentally altered the structures of the UK state .
8 These issues will be developed by looking in some depth at one particular aspect of the UK state — namely , local government and its position within the wider state system .
9 Two speeches straddled the domestic political scene this week , each of them an affirmation of the survival of the British ancien régime and of the continuing relevance of archaic institutions of the UK state .
10 Definition of the pucker states denoted S , X and E on the pseudorotation ring .
11 The development and passage of legislation was aided throughout by the location of the Victoria state parliament in the state 's one major centre of population and by an effective and well advised all party parliamentary road safety committee that drafted the legislation and minimised partisan divisions .
12 The ‘ military — industrial complex ’ was the first area of the contract state to emerge in its fully fledged form , and now exerts a paralysing grip on issues of the most fundamental concern .
13 To the north are the wild acres of the Mordovia state reservation .
14 In 1892 the pavilion was erected and a report of the day states , " The building will be match-boarded with galvanised roof 28 ft long by 13 ft containing a dressing room each end and open seating accommodation in the centre and front and will add greatly to the attractiveness of the ground " .
15 A report of the day states , " December the 20th 1892 a novel football match was played between Halling and Snodland , the match was played during the evening under artificial lights , the lights were three Wells lights lent by Mr H. Anderson , more than 300 people assembled to watch the match " .
16 While in Moscow Bush also addressed a meeting of the Moscow State Institute for International Relations and held separate talks with the President of the Russian Federation , Boris Yeltsin and the Kazakh President , Nursultan Nazarbayev .
17 CIB examinations and services were promoted at the Russian Banking Conference in Moscow , and the CIB organised a study tour for officers of the Moscow State Finance Academy .
18 The linear descendant of the wartime State Defence Committee ( GKO ) — and , indeed , of Lenin 's Council of Workers and Peasants ' Defence — it seems to be a much revamped and strengthened version of its immediate predecessor of the Khrushchev years , the Supreme Military Council ( not to be confused with the Chief Military Council of the MoD , whose task is the narrower one of leadership of the Armed Forces .
19 The charter , if put into effect , would reform the unwritten national charter of 1943 , which gave the Maronites political dominance of the multi-confessional state .
20 The Variability of the Capitalist State
21 Although he did not underestimate the dangers of insurgent Communism , and considered it pathetic that the Soviet leaders should have as their strict aim the overtaking of the Capitalist states , he still felt that something might come out of Russia from which all might benefit .
22 Izvestiya of March 5 published a letter from Yegor Yakovlev , head of the Ostankino state television and radio company [ for its formation in December see p. 38655 ] , to CIS heads of state , proposing that an international broadcasting company be set up on the basis of the Ostankino company .
23 As the inquiry progressed its revelations increased the unpopularity of the ALP state government , which was due to face re-election by 1993 .
24 The subsequent negotiations confirmed that the best hope for compromise lay in ratifying an unamended version of Meech Lake in conjunction with a parallel document which would address the concerns of the dissenter states .
25 The European Court of Human rights held that extraditing a person to a State ‘ where substantial grounds have been shown for believing that the person concerned , … faces a real risk of being subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in the requesting country ’ engages the responsibility of the sending State .
26 The high energy plasma can cause damage at the semiconductor/insulator interface , which in turn gives rise to leakage currents and poor isolation ( this mechanism actually involves the creation of the surface states used to good effect in Jim Luck 's igfets ) .
27 In order to decide whether this is so , account must be taken , not only of the fact that the worker is employed on board a vessel registered in the member state in question , but also of other circumstances , such as the fact that he is in the employ of a company incorporated under the law of that state and established there , or the fact that he was hired in that state and that the employment relationship between him and his employer is subject to the law of the flag state , or the fact that he is insured under the social security system of that state and pays income tax there : see pp. 3009–3010 , paras .
28 The British government only obtained certain concessions from the Stormont government in implementing measures of the welfare state variety after 1944 .
29 This book aims to present a reappraisal of the objectives and achievements of the welfare state .
30 Few appointments made by the Civil Service Commission in recent years will be so crucial , not just to the efficient running of the welfare state , but to the progress of the most significant Civil Service reform this century .
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